Stephanie McCrummen

Washington, D.C.

National enterprise reporter covering an array of subjects Education: Columbia University, MA in journalism; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA in history

Stephanie McCrummen is a national enterprise reporter covering an array of subjects for The Washington Post. Previously, she was the paper's East Africa bureau chief based in Nairobi. She has also reported from Egypt, Iraq and Mexico, among other places. She joined The Post in 2004 as a Metro reporter covering the suburban housing boom. Before that, she was a reporter for Newsday in New York. She is originally from Birmingham, Ala.

In the Finnish border town of Tornio, busloads of refugees arrived every day. As they made their way to a border check, many discarded handfuls of documents that were useless, or perhaps a liability, now that they’d arrived at their final stop.